Elm Farmhouse

BLACKMORE

TL60SW CHELMSFORD ROAD 723-1/2/3 (North side) 22/02/82 Elm Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD CHELMSFORD ROAD, Blackmore Elm Farmhouse)

II

House. C16, extended in C17, C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. EXTERIOR: 3-bay range facing S, with axial stack in right bay, and C17 one-bay extension to right; one storey with attics. C19 lean-to extension along full length of front, forming a catslide roof, and C19 external stack to right of it. Later C19 2-storey wing at front of left bay. C20 single-storey extension at right end. C20 casements of various types on ground floor; one C19 casement in gabled dormer, and similar casement in C20 gabled dormer to right of it. C20 door in C20 gabled porch. Roof of front left wing of shallower pitch than the remainder. Jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched inside heavy studding. INTERIOR: the left bay of the main range comprises the originally storeyed parlour/solar bay of a late medieval plan, with lodged plain joists of horizontal section; long shutter groove in soffit of girt at left end and small unglazed window in rear left corner, with one diamond mullion. The studded partition between this bay and the 2-bay hall has been removed and a heavy post inserted. The stack in the right bay of the hall has been wholly rebuilt or refaced in the C20, although still providing a wide wood-burning hearth. C17 inserted floor in left bay of hall, with chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps, with hardwood boards. The C17 extension to the right has primary straight bracing, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The roof of the main range has been wholly rebuilt in gambrel form in the C18; the lower rafters are exposed within the catslide roof.

Listing NGR: TL6098702049